Lu Yuan didn't think it was angry at all, and said with a smile: "The three old gentlemen are elders and famous Confucians, and they moved three chairs in. ”

After the three of them sat down, Lu Yuan took the gambling contract and asked, "You judged the word "ten" on this gambling contract?" ”

Mr. Zhou twisted his beard and said in an old-fashioned manner: "Not bad." ”

Xu Yun said angrily: "This is clearly a word, three-year-old children know that you must have received the benefits of the Chen family, so there is no distinction between black and white!" ”

Mr. Zhou didn't blink an eyelid, ignoring him.

Chen Qian said sharply: "Brother Xu, the three old gentlemen are all highly respected people, you just slander my Chen family, how can you slander these three old people?" ”

Xu Yun still had to argue, and the head of the junior class angrily reprimanded: "The county lord has not asked, and he must not speak at will!" ”

Lu Yuan thought to himself, no wonder Xu Yundou couldn't help Chen Qian, this Chen family is not a simple person, he asked: "Three old gentlemen, the official also thinks that this seems to be a word, can you explain it?" ”

Mr. He reprimanded: "What does it mean that Chinese characters are the foundation of literature, and they are an extremely serious science, how can a layman interject at will?" ”

Qin Li frowned and said: "The old gentleman's words are wrong, the county lord is from a jinshi, how can he be called a layman?" ”

"The county lord's academic examination is okay, but the academic knowledge may not be useful, dare to ask the county lord, what classics can you cure?" Mr. He asked.

Seeing that Lu Yuan didn't answer, he said solemnly:

"I won't talk about it, and I've only cured one or two classics and histories, which is nothing, but our Mr. Zhou is amazing, and he has annotated many works, which can be said to be a treasure in our Shezhou literary circle."

Mr. Zhou waved his hand and said, "Brother He has won the award, there is no end to learning, and the old man has a lot to learn." ”

The older a person gets, the thicker his face becomes, presumably this kind of person is talking about, through these few words, Lu Yuan has already seen that these people rely on the old and sell the old, pretending to be pretentious, and have no real talent and real learning.

He didn't want to talk nonsense with these people anymore, and asked, "You mean that as long as there is ink on a word, it is a cross?" ”

"Otherwise, it may seem similar to ordinary people, but in the eyes of experts like us, it is very different, and the details are difficult to describe for a while, if you want to listen, I will spend another day to talk to adults, and adults will naturally understand." Mr. He said with a solemn look on his face.

Most of the onlookers couldn't read a few words, and the literate ones never thought that there was still knowledge in Chinese characters.

Lu Yuan smiled: "Very good, I still have a few words here, you can recognize them." ”

Mr. Zhou and the three of them looked at each other and smiled, before they came, they thought that the county order might come up with similar words for them to recognize, and it was likely that they would also be separated from each other, and the three of them already had a plan in their hearts.

Sure enough, I heard the county order: "I have three identical gambling contracts here, you can tell whether there is a word or a cross in it, but you have to recognize it separately." ”

He took out three fake gambling deeds and asked the three to recognize them separately, and while one person recognized it, the other two waited in the side hall.

However, when the three of them read it in turn, they came to the same conclusion, the first two of the three sheets of paper were crosses, and the last one was a word.

The onlookers whispered.

Someone said: "It turns out that there is really a doorway." ”

Another said: "The world of the reader is really complicated. ”

There is also humanity: "It's really worthy of being a great Confucian, and his knowledge seems to be better than that of the county master." ”

Behind the ear door on the left side of the back hall, Miss Sun grabbed Lan'er's hand tightly, looking very nervous.

Su Liuying snorted secretly: "I thought he had grown a little, but after all, he was still an embroidered pillow." ”

Unexpectedly, they had already prepared, Lu Yuan was stunned, and sneered in his heart, but he had prepared other methods.

"After you recognized the words just now, the official has written down which word it is on the back of the paper, and now you might as well re-identify it." Lu Yuan said coldly.

Then he commanded the servant, "Go and bring in a table!" ”

He secretly thought that the three of them must have discussed some countermeasures before, and the ink on these three pieces of paper was almost identical, and he didn't believe that they could really tell the difference.

When the servant moved into a table, Lu Yuan spread three pieces of paper on the table, made a gesture of please, and said in a deep voice:

"Please re-identify."

The three of them looked at each other and smiled.

"It's a cross!" The three of them pointed to the first piece of paper and said in unison.

"It's a word!" Pointing to the second piece of paper, he said in unison.

They pointed to the third piece of paper and said in unison, "It's a cross!" ”

Lu Yuan opened the paper and looked at it, and the three of them recognized it correctly.

The crowd of onlookers suddenly became noisy, and there was also a sound of discussion in the side hall, and the head of the senior class shouted "silence" several times before it quieted down.

Mr. Zhou laughed secretly, extremely proud, although the three pieces of paper given by the county order were written by the same person, it is difficult to see the difference between the ink, but the person who wrote is not smart, and the details of the handwriting and typography are still a little different.

Li Xiancheng smiled and said:

"Lord Lu, these three old gentlemen are as deep as the sea, not you and I can compare, but the Chen family has indeed gone too far, and the yamen should not advocate the gambling, the official judgment in this case is indeed inappropriate, it is better to let the Xu family compensate the Chen family for 5,000 gold, what do you think?"

He didn't want to really fall out with Lu Yuan, since Lu Yuan's slap was on his face, he Li Wencheng was also willing to give the other party a step down.

Master Yuan also laughed:

"Lord Lu, the knowledge of the three old gentlemen is admirable, but the two methods you came up with are even more wonderful, and the subordinates are happy and convinced by Lord Lu, I believe that under the leadership of Lord Lu, this county will definitely get better and better."

At the right ear door of the back hall, Shan Hu grabbed his head and said, "Why did those two officials suddenly slap Lu Xianggong's ass?" ”

The woman in white said lightly: "Lu Yuan lost to them, they just gave him a step." ”

"Brother won't lose!" Lu Yutong snorted.

"It's no wonder he's slick, those people are so treacherous." The woman in white shook her head, she decided to go to the three old men's house at night and use her sword to force them to come to the county office tomorrow to turn themselves in.

Lu Yuan looked around and saw Li Xiancheng looking proud, Yuan Zhushu smiling, Chen Qian with the corners of his mouth upturned, and Xu Yun falling into dementia.

He smiled slightly and said, "Zhan Zhutou, first ask the three old gentlemen to go to the side hall to wait, and Chen Gongzi and Xu Gongzi will also go over together." ”

Li Xiancheng frowned and said, "Lord Lu, the matter is already very clear, you are-"

"Master Li, please go to the back hall and wait." Lu Yuan interrupted unceremoniously.

Li Xiancheng sneered: "Okay." Saying that, he threw up his sleeves and left, and he already saw that Lu Yuan had no intention of stepping down and reconciling.

Waiting for Li Xiancheng to leave, Lu Yuan said to Hou Kaishan: "Brother Hou, you go and ask Mr. Zhuang Mozhi to come over." ”

After a while, an old man followed Hou Kaishan into the court, and the old man arched his hand and said, "What is the matter with the county lord looking for the old man?" ”

Lu Yuan took a gambling deed, walked to the old man's side, and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhuang, you are the number one Confucian in this county, and I have something to ask you about here." ”

"Don't dare to ask for advice, please speak up to the county lord."

"This is a gambling deed, and the official thinks that the gambling money written in it is 1,000 gold, but Mr. Zhou and the other three say that it is 10,000 gold, I want you to screen it." Lu Yuan laid out the gambling deed on the table.

"It's fine." Zhuang Mozhi said lightly.

After taking a closer look, Zhuang Mozhi smiled and said: "Please forgive me, this is indeed ten thousand gold!" ”

"Do you see clearly?" Lu Yuan frowned and asked.

"All the words that the old man has recognized will be engraved in his head, and he will never forget it, how can he not see it clearly?" Zhuang Mozhi said coldly, looking very dissatisfied.

Lu Yuan said again: "It's about 100,000 taels of silver, and please be cautious with the old gentleman." ”

"What are you talking about, could it be that the old man will not be able to recognize it indiscriminately, if I recognize the wrong word, I will not do learning in the future!" Zhuang Mozhi was furious.

Lu Yuan said loudly: "Everyone heard it, Mr. Zhuang said that this is ten thousand taels!" ”

As he spoke, he turned the paper over, but there was a word written on the back!

Zhuang Mo couldn't figure out the situation for a while, and was stunned in place.

Lu Yuan smiled and explained:

"This is one of the three pieces of paper I gave Mr. Zhou just now, Mr. Zhou, they said that it was a word, but Mr. Zhuang said that it was a cross, so there must be one party who recognized the mistake, come and take Mr. Zhou and the three!"